286 Mr. C. Chubb on Birds from [Ibis, 



u{Dper wing-coverts black margined with white, becoming 

 brown and rxiore broadly margined with white on the median 

 and greater series, scapulars and inner secondary quills; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts black tipped with white: 

 fiight-quills blackish tipped with white^ hoary grey on the 

 outer webs, and mottled with brown on the inner ones, 

 which have irregular black bars ; on tlie third outer primary 

 the outer web is barred, and beyond there the quills are paler 

 and more hoary-grey and the blackish bars more distinct; the 

 eight outer secondary quills are again darker, but the pattern 

 is ranch the same and the tips more broadly margined with 

 white. The tail is grey, mottled with brown and white, 

 marked with black at the base and two separate bands on 

 the apical portion, the subterminal one being much the 

 wider, and the tips of the feathers broadly margined 

 with white to which down is still adhei'ing. The chin, 

 throat, breast, abdomen, sides of body, thighs and under 

 tail-coverts, axillaries and under wing-coverts pale fulvous 

 with dark shaft-lines to souie of the feathers on the 

 breast, axillaries under wing-coverts, sides of body, and 

 outer aspect of the thighs; under surface of flight-quills 

 white mottled and blotched with grey on the basal })ortion, 

 towards the tips silvery grey barred with blackish ])rown 

 and blackish on the apical ])ortion, inner secondai'ies also 

 silvery grey mottled and banded with dark brown ; lower 

 aspect of tail silvery grey, mottled with white, and banded 

 with blackish brown. 



This bird was collected in the neighbourhood of Merida, 

 Venezuela, by S. liriceno, and presented to the British 

 Museum by Mr. L. V. Daltou. 



A second young bird from Merida is a female, and 

 is rather more advanced than the two specimens already 

 mentioned, which may be seen by the darker and more 

 developed feathers on the sides of the body, thighs, axillaries, 

 and under wing-coverts. 



Another male bird, also from Venezuela, collected 

 18 October, 1907, is in the fully adult plumage with the 

 throat entirely deep black. Wing 485 mm., tail 292. 



